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Can you recall what it feels like to splash cold water on your face? What is that feeling? What is it to feel something? How does it emerge from the interaction of matter? What is …

God. I know, it's like waiting for paint to dry. Ultimately what we need is a graph store which infers classes of object and relationships between them from the way the data is que…

I should be a great poet with similar loss. But I'm just a narcissist.

Yeah, took me until early 20s to realise this. I just always thought everyone else had the same contempt for seeking praise from authority that I did. I just thought they were all …

I chose path b. Never did homework. I always forgot it. If you passively deflect enough, people will eventually just give up. Especially when you get good to excellent grades in th…

Wonderful! So the theory of relativity is at it's heart an attempt to give non dualism a firmer footing. I shall be using this in conversation with my overly reductionist friends.

That is certainly not true for all. I am on the far left, but think centralised systems tend to be brittle. What we are all looking for is a distributed resilient system that maxim…

Yes you would. But if this becomes widely used you would expect the decode portion to distributed to work on a variety of platforms. Just like jpeg is today. Although I dont think …

Uh oh. Tried to do this myself - failed, but got the feeling ot wasnt actually that hard. Still, we probably have a decade left before web devs start losing out.

The sabre engine is going to eviscerate these companies.

Wht? That's some seriously misplaced faith in capatilism there. I can think of 5 examples off the top of my head where group think delayed the uptake of more optimal solutions.

So it's flickering rapidly and slowly dimming. Perhaps it's because they are completing more of the dyson sphere.

Wow, that is very sensible indeed. Pragmatic. My money is on this.

So its the same as sticking any old light source on the back of space ship. May as well use a light sail.

But this is what the human brain is doing. A large complex statistical analysis of video that provided accurate predictions would contain an understanding of physics, just as our b…

Oooh liquid state machines/reservoir computing, what delicious voodoo. Look up optical reservoir computing, what wonderful nonsense. Smash the thing into a million random pieces an…

I don't get your point. This is about the cause of the garbage. Garbage that once served a purpose is as much garbage as stuff that has never served a purpose.

Yup. We are taught ao thoroughly that our thoughts are distinct from reality, that we have trouble grasping thier power over our bodies. While you cannot move objects with your min…

Why on earth is this a law?

I have cycling mood problems, weird transient blister rashes and almost constant nasal congestion. It's all quite low level. Autoimmune related is the best I can get from the nhs. …

Ignore it, it's an emotional reaction from people frightened of change. But I would say that I have some doubts about this tech from an engineering point of view. What if the carra…

It's only strange if you consider the report to have no political motivation. Allow yourself to consider that the report may have been influenced by overt political pressure, or mo…

How does one get over it? I just can't do it. I still have a vengeful hatred of the world and I'm pushing 40. I'm fairly certain that it's this that creeps people out in my case as…